UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS
Vice-Chancellor
Critical
“In obtaining the complete nine and a half acres of science floor space, there is more pain and suffering than I would care go into this evening,” said Dr. L. L. Pownail, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canterbury last evening. He was addressing the second annual meeting of the University of Canterbury Association. (The science buildings at Ilam are about nine months behind schedule.)
“Although the new buildings will be first-class functionally, I find their exterior quite disappointing,” said Dr. Pownall. “I also feel some personal relief at seeing the engineering library and new lecture rooms being built. They will relieve the effect of that whimsical mushroom lecture theatre set against the factory-like frontage of the engineering school.”
Dr. Pownall said that the university would have more say in designing the £4i million worth of teaching buildings in the third stage now being planned. Sketches were still awaiting Government approval, but he was confident that they would be architecturally contentious —as befitted a university.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31016, 23 March 1966, Page 11
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